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Access a free toolkit, designed to help more young people into university.

Practical tips when planning and delivering HE advice and guidance to your students, from securing speakers to arranging work experience. Plus, useful careers resources and recommended tools to embed into your day-to-day work.

Every year, over 100,000 disabled students (also known as students with special educational needs and disabilities, or SEND for short) apply through UCAS to study at a university or college in the UK – including mental health conditions, learning differences, and long-term health conditions. Students can access a range of support to help them succeed with their studies, day-to-day activities, travel, and lifestyle.

This guide was created by Lead Scotland, a charity providing support for disabled people to learn.

Our best advice: start your research early. Alongside your research into courses and universities, you may also need to take your individual support needs into account when making your choices.

Our FAQs will help you find out if you're eligible for the Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA).

Go beyond teaching in your education personal statement, to really explain your passion and interest in how we learn, the role of education today, and how we can shape learning environments.

Get your message into inboxes, reliably and consistently, via trusted UCAS email campaigns.

Engage applicants and pre-applicants with rich provider content that's presented to them from the earliest stages of their research, boosting brand awareness and securing lead gen data.

Access the richest and most up-to-date admissions data so you can strengthen your strategic planning and better understand your market - and your competition.

Big data. Big insight. Big results.

How the University of Chester uses data to punch above its weight.

Lots of students from overseas choose to study in the UK, and could be eligible for student finance. Content provided by Student Finance England.

External speakers can add real value to what you do – informing students about apprenticeships, uni or career opportunities – and enrich the curriculum through sharing their experiences.

Courteney Sheppard, Head of Customer Contact, UCAS and David Penney, Director of Marketing, UCAS